Psychiatry Research
Volume 143, Issue 2 , Pages 135-145 , 30 August 2006

Aberrantly flattened responsivity to emotional pictures in paranoid schizophrenia

  • Eun Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Ilsan Hospital, National Health Insurance Corporation, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
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  • Jae-Jin Kim

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
    • Institute of Behavioral Science in Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
    • ,
  • Kee Namkoong

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
    • Institute of Behavioral Science in Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
    • ,
  • Suk Kyoon An

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
    • Institute of Behavioral Science in Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychiatry, Severance Mental Health Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 696-6 Tanbul-dong, Gwangju-si, Gyeonggi-do, 464-100, South Korea. Tel.: +82 31 760 9410; fax: +82 31 761 7582.
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  • Jeong-Ho Seok

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
    • ,
  • Yu Jin Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
    • ,
  • Jee In Kang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
    • ,
  • Jae Hyuk Choi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
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  • Taekyong Hong

      Affiliations

    • Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
    • ,
  • Jong Hee Jeon

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Behavioral Science in Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
    • ,
  • Hong Shick Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
    • Institute of Behavioral Science in Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Received 8 September 2004 ,Revised 2 September 2005 ,Accepted 18 September 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2005.09.011

Psychiatry Research
Volume 143, Issue 2 , Pages 135-145 , 30 August 2006

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